State Ownership and the United Nations Business and Human Rights Agenda

Three Instruments, Three Narratives

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ID19466612
AuthorsMikko Rajavuori (0000-0002-4141-8118, corresponding author), Mikko Rajavuori Mikko Rajavuori
Year2016
Volume23
Issue2
Pages665
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1080-0727 • E-ISSN: 1543-0367
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/indjglolegstu.23.2.0665
OpenAlexW2552243575
LanguageEN
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The rise of globally-oriented state ownership has emerged as a crucial issue across political, economic, and legal planes during the past decade. Contrary to the traditional approach where state ownership is viewed primarily through trade law, antitrust law, and corporate law, this article discusses the proliferating state shareholder power in relation to international human rights law. In particular, the article interrogates three recent U.N. human rights governance instruments by using narratives that highlight perils, potential, and specialty of state ownership in the emerging business and human rights agenda. It is argued that the U.N. instruments realize the changes in the architecture of globalized state ownership, portray it as a regulatory space, and seek to utilize this space by recalibrating states’ private shareholder identities with public ends. At the same time, however, the nascent human rights-based regulation of state ownership exposes a deeper market contingency underpinning the techniques of contemporary human rights governance

Business · Human rights · International human rights law · International trade · Narrative · Political science · Corporate Law and Human Rights · International Arbitration and Investment Law · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Public Administration

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